Typewriter



1940- J. L. SWEENEY ET AL 2,186,048 TYPEWRIT'ER Filed Oct. is. 1936 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 m g fl g gg g @QQL JZee Sh een e5, l-lanky] Bate;

1940- l J. L. SWEEiNEY ET m. 2,186,048

TYPBWRITER Filed Oct. 15', 1936 s Sheets-sheaf 2 Jan. 9, 1940.

J. L. $WEENEY AL TYPEWRITER Filed 001?. 15, 1936 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 6 63 flee fiweerze 69 66 62 Harry Baie s Q I I Patented Jan. 9, 1940 a p UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE J. Lee Sweeney and flan-y Bates, New York. N. Y., gssiygnor! to Bates Laboratories, Inc., New York.

Application mm 15,- 1936, Serial No. 105,190

18 Claims. (Cl. 191-45) This invention relates to improvementsintype-. ard keyboard, and near the upper edge of the writers and more particularly to typewriters of part I6 we place a row of characters I8 which corthe class employing a movable type-unit which respond with the characters I1. As the charsupports all of the type characters. acters I8 coincide with the characters II, it will 6 The primary purpose of the invention 18 to pro be obvious that when any one of the characters vide atypewriter especially adapted for the teach- I1 is brought into register with a fixed pointer ing of typing. I9, the corresponding character in the row I8 Another object is to supply a typewriter for eduwill also register with the pointer. cational purposes having a dummy keyboard bear At this point it may be stated that lateral shifting reference characters arranged to simulate ing of the keyboard I! functions to move or roit) the keys of a standard keyboard and also having tate a type unit 20 while depression of the keya row of the same characters positioned tq correboard acts to move the platen 2| into contact spend with the characters on thedummy keywith the type member 20. board and to cooperate with a pointer to enable Referring to the type unit it will be noted the typist to readily bring any particular charthat in the present embodiment it is in the form 15 acter into position to be typed. of a wheel 22 fixedly mounted on a shaft 23. A still further object is to furnish a typewriter The periphery of the wheel is provided with an of such simple inexpensive and durable construcannular row 24 of lower case type and a second tion that it may be sold at a small price and may annular row 25 of upper case type. 90 be roughly handled without getting out of order. The shaft 23 is rotatably mounted and axially With the foregoing objects outlined and with movable in a suitable support 26 which may be other objects in view which will appear as the in the form of an U-shaped piece of sheet metal description proceeds, the invention consists in having its ends secured to oppositely disposed the novel features hereinafter described in debrackets 21 which are integral with and extend tail, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, upwardly from the base plate I. 25 and more particularly pointed out in the ap- A coil spring 28 encircles the shaft and has pended claims. oneof its ends bearing upon the upper portion In the drawings: of the member 26 and its other end bearing against Fig. l is a top plan view of one embodiment the pin 29 on the shaft, for normally holding the of the invention. latter in depressed condition where the lower 0 Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. case type will cooperate with the paper on the Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view platen 2i. A cog wheel 30 is fixed to the lower taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. end of the shaft and cooperates with the slotted Fig. 4 is a longitudinal view of adetail on th rack bar 3i fixed to the bottom of the keyboard 3 line-H of Fig. 3. I6. It will be obvious from the above that when Figs. 5 and 6 are plan views partly broken away the board is shifted laterally, the rack 3I .will roof details of the escapement mechanism. tate the cog wheel 30 and through the medium Referring to the drawings, 1. designates a base of the shaft 23 will cause corresponding moveplate of sheet metal or the like supported on ment of the type wheel 22.

short resilient legs or knobs 8. Oppositely d-is- In order to y e d y lock the yp Wheel in 40 posed posts 9, preferably integral with the base any position into which it has been moved, we pro- 1 plate, project upwardly therefrom and support vide'a detent 32 (Fig. 4) that is pivotally mounta shaft I0. oppositely disposed levers l I are ed at 33 on the member 26, and is provided at mounted on the shaft'and arrangedto rock about its free end with a roller 34 which cooperates the axis thereof, and the outer ends of these with the teeth of the cog wheel. A leaf spring 45 levers are fork shaped so as to provide upstand- 35 is secur d to the detent .and'functionsto maining extensions I2 and I3. The extensions I2 are tain the roller in engagement with'the cog wheel, fixedly secured to a horizontally disposed guide and any suitable means, such as a screw 36, is rod I4, and the extensions I3 carry a similarly employed to adjust the "tension of the spring.

disposed guide plate I5. The members I 4 and The screw 36 isthreaded into one of the brackets 50 I 5 actas guides and supports for a laterally shift- 21 and it is preferably provided with a lock nut 31. able as well as'depressible dummy keyboard- I6, For the purpose of moving the shaft 23 and the which is best shown in Fig.1. From that figure, type wheel upwardly to allow the upper case it will be noted that the face of the keyboard typeto cooperate with the platen, the lower end bearscharacters II arranged to simulateastandof the shaft is engaged by an arm '38 fixed to 55 in the brackets 21.

oppositely disposed arms 40 are fixed to the rock shaftsnd carry shift keys 4| at their outer ends. Depression of either one of the shift keys causes the members 40 and 38 to move in a clockwise direction and this results in elevation of the type wheel 22. The arm 38 is normally held de-- pressed and in contact with a stop 42 by means of a coil spring 43 having one of its ends secured to the arm and its other end secured to the base plate.

For the purpose of spacing, another pair of oppositely disposed arms 44 have their inner ends pivotally connected at 45 to the brackets 21 and carry at their outer ends a shift bar 46. These arms are normally held in an elevated position by means of coil springs 41 having their upper ends connected to the brackets 21 and their lower ends secured to the arms. When the bar is depressed,

" it causes. corresponding movementof a rod 48 which has its ends secured to the levers II, but downward movement of the arms 44 is limited by the arms coming into contact with stop surfaces 49 on the base plate. Leaf springs 5|! having their inner ends secured to the base plate,

bear against the rod 48, for normally holding the false keyboard in normal position, and cooperate spring 43 to hold the shift bar 46' ele;

, riage 54, and as best shown in Fig. 3, the upper rail of said carriage also slides in an arm 58 mounted at the medial portion of the shaft 10, for movement with the arms II. is arranged between the rails of the platen carrlage and is carried by the arm 58 for limiting lateral shifting of the platen carriage in the well known manner.

. I9 and a retaining pawl 60. The pawl 58 is pivotally mounted at 64 on one arm 6| of a bell crank lever which is pivotally mounted at 62011 an L-shaped bracket 83 fixed to the arm 56. The pawl 80 is pivotally mounted on the bracket 83. A coil spring 65 has one of its ends connected to the tail of the advancing pawl 58 and its other end connected to the second arm 68 of the bell crank lever. Another coil spring 61 has one of its ends connected to the tail of the retaining pawl 60, and its other end secured to the bracket I. The outer endof the arm of the bell crank is slotted as shown at 68 to cooperate with a pin 88 which extends through thisslot and is mounted on a'stationary bracket I0 which projects upwardly from the base plate I.

From the above it will be understood that when the bracket 63 is rocked with the arm 56, the

stationary pin 89 will cause the bell crank to move in a counter-clockwise direction as viewed 111 F18. 5, with the result that the pawls will be moved toward the left to cause them to ratchet on nly connected at 12 to the frame of the platen A stop 51' For escapement purposes the f 1 rail 55 has a conventional rack 68 which cooperates (Figs. 5 and 6) with an advancing pawl.

9,186,048 the central portion of a rock shaft 39 :Iournaledv carriage. The bar is substantially co-extensive with the platen and when it is rocked in the counter-clockwise direction, illustrated by the arrow in Fig. .3, it comes in contact with pins 13 and I4 which project upwardly from the tails of the pawls and this results in swinging these pawls about the pivot 64, as is illustrated in Fig; 6. Ink may be supplied to the type unit by any suitable means, and for the purpose of .disclosing the present invention, we have shown the unit cooperating with an ink cylinder 15 pivotally mounted on a bracket 16 supported by the member 21. a In operation, it will be assumed that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1 and it is desired to impress the small case letter "3 on the paper on the platen. The typist with his fingers letter 1" on the type wheel. Upon release of pressure on the keyboard'the springs 50 return.

the latter to its normal position.

If an upper case letter is to be printed, the operator prior to depressing the keyboard will depress one of the shift keys 4|, so that this will elevate the typewheel and place it in position to print the upper case letter on the paper.

0! course, each depression of the board It causes the escapement mechanism to feed the platen one step, and when it is desired to place a space between characters impressed on the paper,'the bar-46 is depressed and this causes advancement of the platen carriage with the paper on the platen coming into contact with the type wheel.

forming one embodiment of our invention, we are aware that the invention may be incorporated in other embodiments and changes may be made in the details disclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention as expressed in the claims What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1; A typewriter of the character described 1 comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when said board is shifted laterally in either direction, a platen, and means cooperating with the keyboard and platen for causing the latter to move into contact with the type unit upon depression of the keyboard.

2. A typewriter of the character com-'- prising a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a row of corresponding characters extending longitudinally of said keyboard, astationary in- 'dicator cooperating *with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when saidboard is shifted laterallyiin either direction, a platen, and means colower case characters, a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard operatively con-- 3'. A typewriter of the character described comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a. stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when said board is shifted laterally in either direction, a platen, means cooperating with, the keyboard and platen for causing the latter to move into contact with the type unit upon depression of a the keyboard, and an escapement mechanism cooperating with thelast mentioned means for laterally shifting the platen each time the keyboard is depressed.

4. A typewriter of the character decribe'd comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a

stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when said board is shifted'laterally in either direction, a platen, and means cooperating with the keyboard and platen for causing the latter to move into contact with the type unit upon depression of the keyboard, the last mentioned means including oppositely disposed rockable levers supporting the keyboard, and members movable with said levers and supporting the platen.

5. A typewriter of thecharacter described comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a

' stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when said board is shifted laterally in either direction, a platen, and means cooperating with the keyboard and platen for causing the-latter to move into contact with the type unit upon depression of the keyboard, the last mentioned means comprising oppositely disposed. rockable levers, and guide members carried by.said levers and slidably supportingthe keyboard.

6. A typewriter of the character described,

comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible I dummy keyboard having key characters thereon,

a stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when said board is shifted laterally in either direction, a

platen, and means cooperating with the keyboard and platen for causing the latter to move into contact with the type unit upon depression of the keyboard, the last mentioned means including forwardly projecting oppositely disposed levers movable about a horizontal axis and supporting the keyboard, and means movable with said levers, projecting rearwardlyv from said axis and supporting said platen.

7. A typewriter of thecharacter vdescribed comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible ,dummy keyboard having key characters thereon,

astationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the keyboard, a type unit movable under the influence of the keyboard when said board is shifted laterally in either direction, a;.

platen, means cooperating with the keyboard and platen for causing the latter to move into contact with the type unit upon depression of the keyboard, said type unit having an annular row of upper case type and an annular row of lower case type, and means for shifting said unit relatively to the platen for bringingeither of said rows into position to cooperate with the platen. 8. A typewriter comprising a type unit provided with annular rows ofupper case characters and unit when the keyboard is shifted laterally, a

platen movable toward and away from the type unit, and means for operatively connecting the keyboard and platen for shifting the latter when the keyboard is depressed, an escapement mechanism for shifting the platen axially each time the keyboard is depressed, and a shift bar cooperating with the last mentioned means for operating the escapement mechanism each time the shift bar is depressed.

10. In a typewriter, pivotally mounted levers, a dummy keyboard slidably mounted on said levers, a type member, means operatively connecting the type member to the keyboard for causing movement of the type member when the keyboard is shifted laterally, a platen member cooperating with the type member, means for causing one of said members to move into contact with the other when the keyboard is depressed,

escapement mechanism cooperating with said levers for shifting the platen axially each time one of said members moves into contact with the other, a horizontally disposed rod supported by said levers, second pivotally mounted levers resting on said rod, a shift bar supported by the second levers, yielding means for normally holding all of the'levers in elevated positions, and stop means for limiting downward movement of the second levers. a

11. A typewriter comprising a laterally displaceable and depressible dummy keyboard, rockable levers supportlng the keyboard, a type unit, means operatively connecting the type unit to the keyboard for-movement by the latter when the dummy keyboard is shifted laterally, a platen movable toward and away from the type unit, means operatively connected to the 'leversfor supporting the platen, escapement mechanism cooperating with the last mentioned means for shifting the platen axially each time the key- ;board is depressed, and means operating independently of the keyboard for shifting the type unit relatively to the platen.

12. A typewriter comprising a rockable support, a platen, a platen carriage slidably mounted'on the support and provided with a rack, a bell crank lever pivotally mounted on the rockable support and shii'table bodily with the latter,

an advancing pawl for the rack pivotally connected with one arm 'of the bell crank lever, a

retaining pawl for the racle pivotally connected to the rockable support and positioned immediately below the advancing pawl, a spring connecting one end'of the advancing pawl to the other arm of the bell crank lever for normally urging the advancing pawl into engagement with the teeth of the rack, another spring connecting the retaining pawl to the rockable support for normally urging the retaining pawl into engagementwiththesameteethoftheracnandmeansfor causing the bell crank to turn about its pivotal mounting when the bell crank is moved in one direction with the rockable support whereby the pawls cooperate with the rack to feed the carriage step by step.

13. A typewriter comprising a rockable support, a platen, a platen carriage slidably mounted on the support and provided with a rack, a bell crank lever pivotally mounted. on the rockable support and shiftable bodily with the latter, an advancing pawl for the rack pivotally connected with one arm of 'the bell crank lever, a retaining pawl for the rack pivotally connected to the rockable support and positioned immediately below the advancing pawl, a spring connecting one end of the advancing pawl to the other arm or the bell crank lever for normally urging the advancing pawl into engagement with the teeth of the rack, another spring connecting the retaining pawl to the rockable support for normally urging the retaining pawl into engage-' ment with the same teeth of the rack, means" for causing the bell crank to turn about its pivotal mounting when the bell crank is moved in one direction with the rockable support whereby the pawls cooperate with the .rack to feed the carriage step by step, and means cooperating with'the pawls for disengaging them from the rack when it is desired to shift the platen carriage without interference by the rack and'pawlmechanism.

14. A typewriter comprising pivotally mounted rocking levers, a dummy keyboard slidably mounted on said levers, a rotatable and axially movable type unit, means operatively connect mg the unit to the keyboard for setting the unit inaccordance with lateral movements of the keyboard, a platen operatively connected to said levers and movable toward and away from the type unit, escapement mechanism for the platen operatively connected to the .last mentioned means for moving the platen axially step by step each time the keyboard is depressed, a horizontal bar connecting said levers, second pivotally mounted levers engaging said bar, and a spacing bar carried by the second leve'rs.

15. A typewriter comprising pivotally mounted rocking levers, a dummy keyboard slidably mounted on said levers, a rotatable and axially movable type unit, means operatively connecting the unit to the keyboard for setting the unit in accordance with lateral movements of the keyboard, a platen operatively connected to said levers and movable toward and away from the type unit, escapement mechanism for the platen operatively connected to the last mentioned means for moving the platen axially step by'step each time the keyboard is depressed, a horizontal bar connecting saidlevers, second pivotally mounted levers engaging said bar, a spacing bar carried by the second levers, and means for axially shifting the type unit-comprising pivotally mounted third levers extending over said rod, and a shiftkey carried by each of the third levers.

- 16. A typewriter comprising pivotally mounted rocking levers, a dummy keyboard slidably various positions,

mounted on said levers, a rotatable and axially movable type unit, means operatively connecting the unit to the keyboard for setting the unit in accordance with lateral movements of the keyboard, a platen operatively connected to said levers and movable toward and away from the type unit, escapement mechanism for the platen operatively connected to the last mentioned means for moving the platen axiallystep by step each time the keyboard is depressed, a horizontal bar connecting said levers, second pivotally mounted levers engaging said bar, a spacing bar carried by the second levers, and means for axially shifting the type unit comprising pivotally mounted third levers extending over said rod,

and a shift key carried by each of the third levers, each of the third levers being shaped to permit depression thereof without causing the lever to contact with said rod. I

17. A typewriter comprising a laterally shittable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the dummy keyboard, a type wheel provided with an annular row of upper case characters and an annular row of lowercase characters, a stationary support, a

shaft fixed to said wheel and journaled. in said support for rotatable and axial movement, means operatively connecting said shaft to the dummy keyboard for causing turning of the wheel when the keyboard is shifted laterally in either direc tion, means ior temporarily latching the shaft in various positions, 'rockable levers pivotally mounted below the wheel and slidably supporting the dummy keyboard, a platen operatively connected with th e lev'ers and shiitable into contact with the type wheel upon depression of the key-- board, and escapement mechanism for the platen operatively connected with the last mentioned means. 18. A typewriter comprising a laterally shiftable and depressible dummy keyboard having key characters thereon, a stationary indicator cooperating with the characters on the dummy keyboard, a type wheel provided with an annular row of upper case characters and an annular row of lower case characters, a stationary support, a shaft fixed to said wheel and journaled in said support for rotatable and axial movement, means operatively connecting said shaft to the dummy keyboard'i'or causing turning of the-wheel when the keyboard is shifted laterally in either direction, means for temporarily latching the shaft in rockable levers pivotally mounted below the wheel and slidably supporting the dummy keyboard, aplaten operatively connected with the levers and shiftable into contact with the type wheel upon depression of thekeyboard, an escapement mechanism for the platen operatively connected with the last mentioned means, and manually controlled means operating independently of the levers for moving the p 

